The Catholic Church for the sake of ephemeral “dialogue with Moscow” missed the truth

The meeting of the Pope and the Patriarch of Moscow found epochal failures Vatican diplomats who can not look out into the real world, says Miroslav Marinović, vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, a former political prisoner, a Ukrainian human rights activist and founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.

“Dad had an opportunity to defend the interests of the offended Russian aggression had but did not use it.”, – notes Marinovic in his article in the “Ukrainian Truth”.

He is convinced that the Cuban declaration two primates is designed so that about Russia it refers to as a region, “an unprecedented revival of the Christian faith”, where there is the opportunity to “practice their religion freely,” while the alarm appears only when it comes to other countries.

“The Cuban declaration of the Pope and the Patriarch of Moscow is a vivid illustration of several things: the indisputable victory of the FSB and the Kremlin, with all their obedient tools, to which I refer, and the Russian Orthodox Church, and the total defeat of Ukrainian public diplomacy at the Vatican and the apparent lack of it Information Service by the UGCC; helpless blindness and incompetence of the Vatican diplomacy, which is easy to confuse peaceful lexicon; and alarming failure of influential circles of Europe decode deceitful formulas Putin’s propaganda “- Marinovic said.

“That’s why I have a pain conclude on the issue of Ukraine and the Russian Catholic Church for the sake of ephemeral” dialogue with Moscow “once again missed with the truth”, – he stressed.

Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill (Gundyaeva) was signed at the airport in Havana February 12. Ukrainian translation posted on the site, “Vatican Radio”. The Russian version – on the site of the ROC.

Sourse, 14/02/2016